Dealing with Rising Sea Levels

Here’s a cool video on the physics of sea walls, which are a key piece of climate change adaptation.

As sea levels rise due to the thermal expansion of the ocean waters and the melting of ice on Greenland and the Antarctic, many American cities along the eastern seaboard will be lost if we’re unable to protect them.

(Shown above: sunny day flooding, prominent in southern Florida)

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